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Thursday, December 27, 2007

'NYT' admits: Ron Paul not a neo-Nazi

The New York Times on its Web site posted a lengthy Editors' Note last night concerning a blog posting this week by reporter Virginia Heffernan. That post had opened, "Ron Paul, our Internet president, seems to have Nazi troubles, as in they’re saying he’s one of them." The Editors' Note reads:

"A post in The Medium that appeared on Monday about the Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and his purported adoption by white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups contained several errors. Stormfront, which describes itself as a 'white nationalist' Internet community, did not give money to Ron Paul’s presidential campaign; according to Jesse Benton, a spokesman for Paul’s campaign, it was Don Black, the founder of Stormfront, who donated $500 to Paul. "The original post also repeated a string of assertions by Bill White, the commander of the American National Socialist Workers Party, including the allegation that Paul meets regularly 'with members of the Stormfront set, American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review and others' at a restaurant in Arlington, Va. Paul never attended these dinners, according to Benton, who also says that Paul has never knowingly met Bill White. Norman Singleton, a congressional aide in Paul’s office, says that he met Bill White at a dinner gathering of conservatives several years ago, after which Singleton expressed his indignation at the views espoused by White to the organizer of the dinner. The original post should not have been published with these unverified assertions and without any response from Paul."

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15 comments:

More and more, the NYT Magazine and the Internet seem to be made for each other, in the worst sense.The thing is driven by its quest for "buzz," whether through photography, typography, or just running downright lazy, stupid text.On the positive side, it sells lots of ads, as do NFL games on TV.

Of course Ron Paul is not a neo-Nazi. I am stunned that the NYT would even consider suggesting it. It makes me question the NYT's motives. Ron Paul represents a real threat to corporatism; the New York Times Company owns almost two dozen regional newspapers (15 dailies). That represents a lot of power (if "information" is power). When the political and economic power of a country rests in the hands of such groups, then a corporatist system is in place. Ron Paul has pledged to tackle corporatism and return government to its constitutional role. I can see why some might want to smear Ron Paul's name.

I have yet to see a favorable piece done on the only honest politician I have ever seen (Ron Paul). Fox news smears him whenever they mention his name and most other big media do worse they ignore him. This is just one more of those hit pieces. The media is trying to make up your mind for who to vote for. Its pretty sickening that they can get away with it. If an honest politician like Paul gets slammed for wanting to bring back the US Constitution and the Bill of Right then this country is in bigger xxxx than you know.

Ron Paul bloodied himself by keeping money sent by Don Black, Stormfront founder and former Klansman, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/19/AR2007121901596.htmlhttp://eyeonhate.com/dixie1a.html (last item)and then obliging Black by appearing in this photograph: http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=63682&page=16

While the august NYT is in verification mode, will it press Paul on why he continues in secrecy mode?From 1985 to 1992, he published the Ron Paul Political Report which became the Ron Paul Survival Reportin 1993.Taking a leaf from the Book of Secrecy by Dick Cheney, Ron Paul steadfastly refuses to release those newsletters.

He asks for our vote. We ask him to stop hiding his newsletters so we may better understand who he is and what he represents.

We want to know if his newsletters are the basis of his reputation as the Voice of the Radical Right in Congress.

Did his newsletters prompt support from folks like this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yafeVz8eP0U

Ron will get marginalized like Richardson, Edwards, Nader. I get calls here in Minnesota to subscribe to NYT. I decline saying, "I can't help it subscriptions are down, but I'm looking for news. Thanks for sitting on the domestic spying story 'til after the election."

Ron Duncan, the deputy director of the group's Iowa chapter, and Mark Land, Taylor County Minuteman leader, each offered the Texas congressman their personal endorsements.

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Halverson declined to provide the membership numbers of Tancredo's citizens group or the Iowa Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, but described the state's Minuteman branch as one of the nation's fastest-growing chapters.

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